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The Glass Cage: Automation and Us
Nicholas Carr · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs of granting software dominion over our work and our leisure and reveals something we already... |
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Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
William Deresiewicz · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 245
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking manifesto for people searching for the kind of insight on leading, thinking, and living that elite schools should be - but aren't - providing.As a professor at Yale, Bill Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation's brightest... |
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Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable, and Secure Food Systems
Philip Ackerman-Leist · Chelsea Green Publishing
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback
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Droves of people have turned to local food as a way to retreat from our broken industrial food system. From rural outposts to city streets, they are sowing, growing, selling, and eating food produced close to home—and they are crying out for agricultural reform. All this has made... |
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Hobby Farm Animals: A Comprehensive Guide to Raising Chickens, Ducks, Rabbits, Goats, Pigs, Sheep, and Cattle
Sue Weaver · I5 Press
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
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Eggs, meat, milk, wool, fur, feathers, and some priceless bucolic bliss. No hobby farm is complete without critters ... possibly a small herd peppering the field or a microflock flapping around the hen house or pond. A single information-packed volume with everything a hobby farmer needs... |
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Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age
Cory Doctorow · McSweeney's
Format: Hardcover
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In sharply argued, fast-moving chapters, Cory Doctorow's Information Doesn't Want to Be Free takes on the state of copyright and creative success in the digital age. Can small artists still thrive in the Internet era? Can giant record labels avoid alienating their audiences? This... |
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A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
Daniel J Levitin · Dutton
Pages: 292
Format: Print book
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From The New York Times bestselling author of THE ORGANIZED MIND and THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC, a primer to the critical thinking that is more necessary now than ever. We are bombarded with more information each day than our brains can process - especially in election season. It's raining... |
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Arduino and Raspberry Pi Sensor Projects for the Evil Genius
ROBERT CHIN · McGraw-Hill Education TAB
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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Fiendishly Clever Sensor Projects for Your Arduino and Raspberry PiLearn to quickly build your own electronic gadgets that monitor, measure, and react to the real world -- with no prior experience required! This easy-to-follow guide covers the programming and electronics essentials needed... |
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The Face of Britain: A History of the Nation Through Its Portraits
Simon Schama · Oxford University Press
Pages: 632
Format: Print book
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Author of a number of celebrated works, including the bestselling The Story of the Jews and Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Simon Schama's latest book fuses history and art to create a tour de force of narrative sweep and illuminating insight. Using images from works-paintings,... |
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Indelible Ink: The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America's Free Press
Richard Kluger · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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The untold story of the battle to legalize free expression in America by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ashes to Ashes.The liberty of written and spoken expression has been fixed in the firmament of our social values since our nation's beginning -- the government of the United... |
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